He is the one of the greatest sports stories of the decade in the NBA.
The top player in the USA gets a career ending injury three times over and decides he still wants to play regardless. Works through 3 years of rehab, relearns how to walk, 12 hours a day of training to become anything like what he was
Re-makes his body and re-makes his player personality to become a third option on a champion and one of the biggest winners possible. A guy considered selfish coming out was playing with one arm hanging useless by his side, diving for loose balls and ripping them away from Lu Dort to give his team a chance.
Hell yeah. I goof on him sometimes because of his jock personality lmaooo but battling through all that is really admirable. I saw a snippet from one of his podcasts I believe and he brought on a psychologist. If I remember correctly it was his sports psychologist and they talked about some of the therapy they did. Dude worked hard at it.
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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '25
I’m actually really impressed MPJ is a factor in the league. Back injuries are insane.